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Read Advocacy Material: Crack the Disparity Month of Advocacy Activities Highlighted in Quarterly Newsletter

By The Sentencing Project

The fourth edition of the Crack the Disparity Coalition's quarterly e-newsletter highlights numerous activities going on during April – Crack the Disparity Month of Advocacy. The newsletter features various tools citizens can use to lobby for sentencing reform, including talking points for Lobby Day on April 28, and telephone scripts to assist advocates in calling congressional members on National Call-in Day scheduled for April 23. For the coalition's Letter-a-Day campaign, the newsletter includes sample letters to congressional members, in addition to sample letters to editors in an effort to enable citizens to garner local and national newspaper attention on the need for crack cocaine sentencing reform. A feature on Lawrence Garrison, who was recently released early from a 19-year crack cocaine sentence following the United States Sentencing Commission's guideline amendment, details the 34-year-old's re-entry experience...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on April 15, 2009 (boomark / email).